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Re: st_atime
- From: Brian Ford <Brian dot Ford at FlightSafety dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: st_atime
- References: <20080312175142.GY18407@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> From the release notes of the latest SUA for Vista/Longhorn:
>
> To enable st_atime attribute of stat structure to return correct last
> access time, set
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
> to zero.
It seems odd to me that they recommend modifying the registry directly in
Vista to do this. Although not the default in XP, it is a common
performance tweak to do the same via:
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
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Brian Ford
Lead Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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